FEATURED PROJECTS:

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The End of the Day

A public audio installation that can only be experienced at sunset.

2020-2022
public art

︎︎︎TheEndOfTheDay.guide

The Museum of Almost Realities

A fictional museum about a collection of artifacts from the life you might have had.

2017
narrative installation

︎︎︎AlmostRealities.org

The Department of Emotional Labor

A speculative “soft bureaucracy” navigating the ways we care for and inadvertently hurt each other.

2019
immersive theater

︎︎︎EmotionalLabor.org

ATTENTION: YOU ARE WONDERFUL AND DESERVE EVERY HAPPINESS

A guerrilla art series of unexpected sayings on metal street signs, installed nationwide.

2017
public art

︎︎︎Kickstarter (2018)

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU GOT TO SAY GOODBYE? + others

A commissioned sign series addressing feelings about an ever-changing Seattle.

2019
public art

Porch Scenes (from Across the Space-Time Continuum)

A play about alternate realities, the afterlife, and one last sunset before the end.

2023
play

Advanced Calculations for Women in Heterosexual Relationships

“Take the function of Mary. Take the function of John. Does Mary remember who she was before John?”

︎︎︎Read on McSweeney’s

2020
published short fiction

Objects of My Affection

A mailable sculpture series about care and touch over distance.

2020
sculpture

Places I Have Never Been

A machine-learning model trained on 8+ years of my personal travel sketches, then redrawn with a pen plotter.

2020
machine learning + visual art

WeirdSideProjects.com

An ongoing series of some of my experiments in code, text, street art, food, and feelings.

2015 - present
various mediums

︎︎︎WeirdSideProjects.com

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April Soetarman

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Same Old Mistakes / Glorious New Mistakes